tRNA recognition site of Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase
- 25 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 26 (17), 5416-5422
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00391a030
Abstract
We have previously shown that anticodon bases are essential for specific recognition of tRNA substrates by Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase (MetRS) [Schulman, L. H., and Pelka, H. (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 6755-6759] and that the enzyme tightly binds to C34 at the wobble position of E. coli initiator methionine tRNA (tRNAfMet) [Pelka, H., and Schulman, L. H. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 4450-4456]. We have also previously demonstrated that an affinity labeling derivative of tRNAfMet can be quantitatively cross-linked to the tRNA binding site of MetRS [Valenzuela, D., and Schulman, L. H. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 4555-4561]. Here, we have determined the site in MetRS which is cross-linked to the anticodon of tRNAfMet, as well as the location of four additional cross-links. Only a single peptide, containing Lys465, is covalently coupled to C34, indicating that the recognition site for the anticodon is close to this sequence in the three-dimensional structure of MetRS. The D loop at one corner of the tRNA molecule is cross-linked to three peptides, containing Lys402, Lys439, and Lys596. The 5'' terminus of the tRNA is cross-linked to Lys640, near the carboxy terminus of the enzyme. Since the 3'' end of tRNAfMet is positioned close to the active site in the N-terminal domain [Hountondji, C., Blanquet, S., and Lederer, F. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 1175-1180], this result indicates that the carboxy ends of the two polypeptide chains of native dimeric MetRS are folded back toward the N-terminal domain of each subunit.Keywords
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